4/13 News Roundup – Sanders To Progressives: “Ignore Consultants, Follow Your Gut’; Single Payer Continues To Surge & More
Bernie Sanders urges liberal candidates to ignore consultants, follow their guts
Speaking to a room packed with progressives running for state and local office, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., advised the first-time candidates to ignore the political establishment and trust their guts.
Crediting the movement catalyzed by his 2016 Democratic presidential campaign, Sanders said the policies of Medicare for all, free college tuition, a $15 dollar minimum wage, criminal justice reform, and legalizing marijuana are now “mainstream” among Democrats.
“What was once considered radical is now mainstream,” Sanders said Thursday to cheers at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington.
Sanders bashed the political establishment and the press repeatedly throughout his speech. The media, Sanders said, plays a “destructive” game by telling the “American people that politics is too complicated, you can’t get involved, you don’t know how to run for office.”
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The former presidential contender encouraged the candidates, who are in Washington for four days of training, to embrace a progressive agenda even if they’re running in red or purple states.
“Let me give you a warning here: Watch out for consultants,” he said to laughs. “Often their advice is conservative and wrong. Trust your own guts, trust your own instincts.”
The training, put on by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Sanders’ Our Revolution, includes four days of helping candidates craft their public persona, how to pitch reporters, building field operations, do-it-yourself opposition research, and budgeting.
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Nina’s introduction is always just as good as Bernie’s speech. If you skip over it in the above video, I encourage you to give it a watch!
Spreading ‘Like Wildfire’: Majority of Americans—Including 74% of Democrats—Now Support Single-Payer
https://youtu.be/PVVyhs-NlP4
Spotlight: Senator Bernie Sanders and American Politics
I’ve never been to/heard of this website/magazine but giving it a glance it looks like it could be of interest to some of you.
I spent some time, probably too much time, following up on the magazine and web site.
They are do gooders. Not just poverty, but EXTREME poverty.
The legislators they have on or linked are Republicans. They support foreign aid and it looks like tied to development, hence they are neo liberals. Being somewhat moral in the Republican party is a moral stance …
And who gets foreign aid?
The board of directors are business executives
One of the congressmen on the main page, Dave Reichart from WA is retiring. According to a tracking from 538.com, he voted with Trump 89.9% of the time while his predicted rate from his history was 59.3 thus a +30.6% rise in level of support.
Following the links one finds Rep Ted Yoho from FL who in March hosted a listening session on gun violence in schools and they talked about mental health and arming teachers.
Readers of this blog will not fit with this project.
Thanks, I was curious from some of the phrasing from the Bernie article so had started looking around some of the articles that dealt with poverty and as you note There is a great deal of focus on various foreign aid foundations. One of the first big warning signs that something was off was the Borgen Foundation’s website on poverty (https://borgenproject.org/global-poverty-u-s-jobs/) was a quote from Tom Ridge promoting capitalism and is all about turning people into consumers.
“History has shown that as people transition from barely surviving into becoming consumers, it opens new markets for U.S. companies and creates American jobs.”
“Foreign Policy Magazine describes the world’s poor as the largest untapped market on earth.”
The reviews from former employees/volunteers aren’t exactly stellar either:
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-The-Borgen-Project-RVW4781246.htm
yep. A shady organization.
Thanks for doing that legwork for us Don!!
These days, as soon I read the word ‘Foundation’ I tend to become wary.
Speaking of foundations, did you read about the Clinton Foundation’s latest venture?
Former President Bill Clinton focusing efforts on hurricane recovery in the Caribbean
Bill Clinton:
As usual, I am skeptical, but I certainly do hope that the effort pans out for the people who live in that region. They need help.
Sanders slams Trump’s proposal to rejoin Trans-Pacific Partnership
12 U.S. senators seek FCC probe of Sinclair news scripts, pause in Tribune review
Ajit Pai refuses Democrats’ request to revoke Sinclair broadcast licenses
of course he rejects it
Sinclair is the hope of the Republican party
Fox and Fox and Fox = Sinclair
MSM has been “deliberately distorting news” for quite some time now, although admittedly Sinclair is not subtle and is even more propagandaish than most. No one should be able to own as much media as is now legal.
Democrats get tips on selling progressive points in conservative areas
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they’ve got to do more than just “sell” them. they have to believe them.
Cathy Myers — IronStache’s Democratic challenger in Paul Ryan’s district — makes the case for why she can win
“IronStache” Randy Bryce on running in Wisconsin after Paul Ryan took himself out of the game
The Race to Replace Paul Ryan Says Everything About Party Politics in 2018
I imagine that it will affect the Myers/Bryce primary one way or another. Nothing stays static for long.
Either it will crack open the door a bit for Cathy, or those players supporting Bryce will double down and do their best to slam that door shut.
One of the few times I don’t agree with Bernie, Think Cathy would be better candidate.
Probably but I understand why Bernie got behind Bryce. Either would be a mega improvement of the crap candidate the Republicans put forth.
By Far, just prefer her
Who knows if Cathy does what Beto doing on the ground maybe she has a chance. Its still a heavy R district and a heavy lift for any D.
What you need to know about Beto O’Rourke
I always visit a Whataburger when in Texas, but admittedly, they have started doing things on the cheap and some of the service has been lacking, depending on the location.
Too bad to hear that. Several years ago on vacation I went to Whataburger and thought it was pretty good for a fast food place..
LOL I have never even heard of Whataburger!
the fuckers
in OK in the 1960’s there were 2 chapters of SDS (Port Huron Statement) with a total membership of 30. The head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover called gov of OK who set up a task force to monitor them.
Have you noticed the support of the FBI by dems recently?
FBI has been protecting national security for decades from Rock Music, activists etc.
And they continue
Isn’t is wonderful to live in the land of the free!!!
Olé J Edgar was paranoid about a lot of things back in the 60’s and he was feared by a lot of people back then as well.
Enbridge Blunder Proves Line 5 Solutions a Sham: Time to Shut It Down
https://www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/#not-worth-the-risk
It won’t be a minute too soon to see Foxx out of there.
The one on the right looks like a POX.
Checking in with the 2018 gubernatorial candidates: Abdul El-Sayed (18 min. audio @ link)
Mike Duggan blasts Abdul El-Sayed for accusing him of ‘poisoning kids’
Getting Ugly: Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and Mayor Duggan Go At It